DVLA not sent tax notification
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Here goes long story..... brought out car from honda last Sept payed for 6 months tax. Been waiting for a reminder thought it had come thru but no its a letter to say we have been driving untaxed car!!!
We have had no reminders went to tax it the day I got this letter but look thru paper work no logbook! Call the garage he said do you have a green slip of paper NO. He reckons all has been done properly his end! To tax the car garage gave me logbook number but I'm so worried we are going to get a hefty fine!! Please help.
We have had no reminders went to tax it the day I got this letter but look thru paper work no logbook! Call the garage he said do you have a green slip of paper NO. He reckons all has been done properly his end! To tax the car garage gave me logbook number but I'm so worried we are going to get a hefty fine!! Please help.
sky2010 said:
I have taxed the car now with logbook number that dealer gave me but what I don't understand is how we never got logbook or renewal letter.
<shrug> Stuff goes missing in the post. That's why DVLA say to prod 'em if you've not had an acknowledgement (for a vendor)/new V5C (for a buyer) within a few weeks.With respect, I'm not were why you did not tax the car 6 months after purchase? Am I reading correctly that you didn't tax because you were not reminded to? I'm afraid that the onus is on you to remember to tax your vehicle.
If not done already, ring DVLA, apologise profusely for your admin mistake and offer to back pay the tax owed. They will probably accept this as a satisfactory resolution without fining you.
If not done already, ring DVLA, apologise profusely for your admin mistake and offer to back pay the tax owed. They will probably accept this as a satisfactory resolution without fining you.
sky2010 said:
Here goes long story..... brought out car from honda last Sept payed for 6 months tax. Been waiting for a reminder thought it had come thru but no its a letter to say we have been driving untaxed car!!!
We have had no reminders went to tax it the day I got this letter but look thru paper work no logbook! Call the garage he said do you have a green slip of paper NO. He reckons all has been done properly his end! To tax the car garage gave me logbook number but I'm so worried we are going to get a hefty fine!! Please help.
Where did you bring it to?We have had no reminders went to tax it the day I got this letter but look thru paper work no logbook! Call the garage he said do you have a green slip of paper NO. He reckons all has been done properly his end! To tax the car garage gave me logbook number but I'm so worried we are going to get a hefty fine!! Please help.
TooMany2cvs said:
<shrug> Stuff goes missing in the post. That's why DVLA say to prod 'em if you've not had an acknowledgement (for a vendor)/new V5C (for a buyer) within a few weeks.
Dealers ought to stress the point, but in my experience they never do. I've never had to chase a V5C for a new car but have for the acknowledgement on a PX.Sir, you made the very common and silly mistake of thinking that a Government agency know what they are doing.
The DVLA are a law unto themselves. They will defend to the hilt the misconception that they NEVER make mistakes. The MAIN reason for doing away with paper tax discs, (and the procedure of notifying YOU by post of your road tax situation), was to save the Government money. This was the ONLY motive for doing it.
They do NOT notify by post any more that your tax is about to run out. What they DO do is to gather information from static ANPR and police car ANPR cameras that a vehicle is untaxed. They will then send you a letter. This, obviously, saves the DVLA postage.
Like everything else in this sad world - money is the main driver.
The DVLA are a law unto themselves. They will defend to the hilt the misconception that they NEVER make mistakes. The MAIN reason for doing away with paper tax discs, (and the procedure of notifying YOU by post of your road tax situation), was to save the Government money. This was the ONLY motive for doing it.
They do NOT notify by post any more that your tax is about to run out. What they DO do is to gather information from static ANPR and police car ANPR cameras that a vehicle is untaxed. They will then send you a letter. This, obviously, saves the DVLA postage.
Like everything else in this sad world - money is the main driver.
datum77 said:
The MAIN reason for doing away with paper tax discs, (and the procedure of notifying YOU by post of your road tax situation)...
They do NOT notify by post any more that your tax is about to run out.
They haven't got rid of that. V11s are still sent.They do NOT notify by post any more that your tax is about to run out.
The main reason for getting shot of the silly bit of coloured paper was simply that that bit of coloured paper was no longer the primary record, in the same way as the MOT certificate is no longer the primary record, and the insurance certificate is (sort of) no longer the primary record.
The world has moved on. The computer record is primary. Bits of coloured paper are trivially easy to forge.
Edited by TooMany2cvs on Monday 29th May 11:31
datum77 said:
Sir, you made the very common and silly mistake of thinking that a Government agency know what they are doing.
They do NOT notify by post any more that your tax is about to run out. What they DO do is to gather information from static ANPR and police car ANPR cameras that a vehicle is untaxed. They will then send you a letter. This, obviously, saves the DVLA postage.
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Yes they do notify by post unless your paying via continuous DD, then you get schedule of payment(s) via email. As someone else has already stated you bought 6 months tax 8 months ago, haven't received a V5C and have done nothing? Why do people never take responsibility themselves. The DVLA do still send reminder letters but they are and always have been a courtesy reminder. It's down to the keeper to know when the tax is due and use the V5C to tax. If you haven't had one - call the DVLA! They don't know if you don't tell them! There are around 42 million cars on the road and yet so many registered keepers seem to think that the DVLA have some crystal ball that tells them when they have moved, sold their car, bought a new one - if you don't tell them, they don't know!! As for the removal of the tax disc - if a round piece of paper in your windscreen is critical for you and you have no other way of reminding yourself, cut out a round piece of paper, write the date your tax ends on it and stick it in your windscreen.They do NOT notify by post any more that your tax is about to run out. What they DO do is to gather information from static ANPR and police car ANPR cameras that a vehicle is untaxed. They will then send you a letter. This, obviously, saves the DVLA postage.
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Edited by AutoClouseau on Monday 29th May 11:37
datum77 said:
They do NOT notify by post any more that your tax is about to run out. What they DO do is to gather information from static ANPR and police car ANPR cameras that a vehicle is untaxed. They will then send you a letter. This, obviously, saves the DVLA postage.
Like everything else in this sad world - money is the main driver.
Completely wrong, but the Daily Mail would like to speak to you about a vacancy they have.Like everything else in this sad world - money is the main driver.
Davie_GLA said:
I still get letters to remind me to tax, ironically on a zero cost car. it actually costs more to send the letter than it is to tax the car.
But zero-cost cars have always "needed taxing". They always used to need that coloured bit of paper in the windscreen.Disabled drivers and exempt vehicles since gawd knows when.
Old stuff since the early '90s.
Low emissions since 2001.
The act of taxing is still acceptance of your responsibility, and a check that it's insured and MOTd. If you don't tax it, you still need to SORN it - again, positive acceptance that it's off the road, so doesn't need insurance or MOT.
I guess most people get so little "proper" (not junk) post these days that they don't notice stuff missing. We live in a smallish village and have had the same postman for years and as far as I can tell it works fine when he's delivering.
If he's off though, it seems to go to pot - we'll get mail with the right house number but completely the wrong road and over Christmas one postie delivered all the mail around us staggered by one house. The people either side of us were away but we had keys, otherwise we'd have been stuffed until they got back.
And this is only at the point of delivery - there's plenty more scope for it to go wrong.
If he's off though, it seems to go to pot - we'll get mail with the right house number but completely the wrong road and over Christmas one postie delivered all the mail around us staggered by one house. The people either side of us were away but we had keys, otherwise we'd have been stuffed until they got back.
And this is only at the point of delivery - there's plenty more scope for it to go wrong.
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